Exercise testing in hypertension patients

In China, hypertension has become a dangerous factor to public health in recent years. To study its impact on health status, exercise testing was developed to examine the changes of physiological parameters. 107 hypertension patients and 68 healthy persons were volunteers for this testing. During testing, ECG, pulse wave, respiratory wave and blood pressure were recorded. According to the parameters measured, the WHOQOL-BERF results completed by all subjects, and the evaluation based on physical function, statistical analysis was carried out using the student´s t-test and logistic regression. The results show that the recovery time of BP, maximal systolic pressure, and the score of physical function could be used to reflect the difference between hypertension patients and healthy persons. In conclusion, the logistic regression model could be used to detect the hypertension status by exercise testing which did not depend merely on the sphygmomanometer.